Shaquille O'Neal hasn't played professional basketball in four years, and his biggest contribution to the game since then was falling off of TNT's television set.
But the future Hall of Famer still has his legions of devoted fans, as evidenced by the One Direction treatment he received by one eager fan in Atlanta on Wednesday.
That's fanaticism at its most passionate and frightening level.
Too bad Ernie Johnson wasn't as enthusiastic about a peck from Shaq.
